Example sentences of "a [adj] [conj] [adj] man " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fell in love with a deaf and dumb man and I planned to spend my life earning and loving and teaching and praying , all on his behalf . |
| 2 | I was the son of a rich and famous man and , to McIllvanney , that accident of birth clinked with the corrupt sound of silver spoons . |
| 3 | The room was large , furnished like the private study of a rich and cultured man : desk , chairs and bookcases in what looked like hand-tooled mahogany , a tapestry covering one wall , several ornately framed paintings , a chaise-longue , a couple of wingbacked armchairs . |
| 4 | To the mass of Americans , he remained " Ike " — a friendly and unpretentious man , who " incorporated in personality , manner and appearance all that Americans liked to picture as the national virtues " . |
| 5 | He was a friendly and generous man , who gave freely to the poor . |
| 6 | Rindi was a shy and diminutive man of indeterminate age , whom we first met at the Keraing 's house and persuaded to take us along with him on a number of occasions to record his unenviable working day or , rather , night . |
| 7 | I should say here that O was a grown man , a strong and handsome man . |
| 8 | What more could a normal and healthy man want ? |
| 9 | Dávila , however , was a bully , a cruel and insecure man whose constant attacks on the Indians succeeded in turning them from ‘ sheep ’ , as Balboa called them , into ‘ fierce lyons ’ . |
| 10 | At the other occupied table sat a lean-visaged but elegant man in dark clothes , reading a paper by candle-light as he ate . |
| 11 | George II was essentially a weak and second-rate man . |
| 12 | General Zahedi , a tall and good-looking man , was not always a British favourite . |
| 13 | Sidonius , perhaps for political reasons , is concerned to portray a restrained and civilized man , with a good deal of power and authority . |
| 14 | The last Archdeacon of Woodborough , a genial and easy man , had invited all the priests of his eight deaneries to a fork supper laid on with great relish by his wife , a woman whose every fibre rejoiced at being a clergy wife . |
| 15 | Some people feel them as a kind of outrage and violation , and Boden was a strong-minded and passionate man . |
| 16 | One of Lloyd George 's advisers was a sensible and informed man . |
| 17 | Steve Biko , a brave and remarkable man who met a tragic death in the course of a patriotic struggle : this is the very stuff of opera . |
| 18 | Both organisations had as their chief promoter Rabbi Solomon Schonfeld , a brave and dedicated man who could take personal credit for bringing out some 250 children from Vienna and Berlin . |
| 19 | Life as she wanted it to be was momentarily embodied by the don who taught her Greek , a brave and learned man who fought the Turks in Modern Greece . |
| 20 | Guillaume , a careful and prudent man , was quietly appalled . |
| 21 | George Brown emerges from these pages not as a charming if wayward leprechaun , a well-meaning and decent man who occasionally got carried away by his own exuberance , but as a neurotic monster — vain , rude , self-absorbed , utterly insensitive to the feelings and even the common humanity of those around him . |
| 22 | He said he was now a broken and sorry man whose life is virtually in tatters . |
| 23 | He returned to Cornbury a broken and terrified man . |
| 24 | Among a wide circle of friends and correspondents , Cayley seems to have been recognized as a generous and modest man of great personal charm . |
| 25 | Hughes was a popular and gregarious man . |
| 26 | He is not a devious or deceitful man , and he has no ambition to be an actor . |
| 27 | It was n't that she had anything against him personally ; he was a charming and clever man , dedicated to his school , an entrepreneur who was using the fruits of his success to fulfil a lifetime 's dream — and good luck to him , she thought . |
| 28 | In a feature interview with Percy Grainger next day I found him to be a charming and modest man , and was glad to write in glowing terms of his keyboard mastery , his repertoire , and his travels . |
| 29 | He would be a charming and generous man . |
| 30 | He was such a sane and sensible man . ’ |